Not with a bang but a whimper...

I agree with Jeff Jarvis that "CBS and Dan Rather so royally screwed up and they didn't even help themselves when it finally came time to admit they screwed up." Check out the loophole Dan Rather left in his statement not suggesting that the docments are false--just that they don't have the "confidence" in them they once had. How could they have had confidence in them in the first place?? Then notice the "misled" comment--trying to pass the buck.

Now, after extensive additional interviews, I no longer have the confidence in these documents that would allow us to continue vouching for them journalistically. I find we have been misled on the key question of how our source for the documents came into possession of these papers. That, combined with some of the questions that have been raised in public and in the press, leads me to a point where-if I knew then what I know now-I would not have gone ahead with the story as it was aired, and I certainly would not have used the documents in question.

Rather needs to make a Truman-like statement that the "buck stops here" or I think he will go the way of Trent Lott and Howell Raines.